After today’s result, this will be Charles Leclerc’s most successful season in Formula 1 based on points per race & podiums.

His stats so far:

• 23 races
• 3 wins
• 12 podiums
• 341 points
• 14.83 points per race

Considering recent fiasco related to FIA and its governance of the sport, wouldn't it be better for the sport to actually dump FIA similar to how the First Division club dumped Football League to form EPL in 1992? I know that FIA is in charge of the governance, rule creation, circuit certification etc but F1 is a big sport with big money. Those are relatively simple tasks that can definitely be solved with money.

The sport is enjoying a boom in popularity right now but FIA doesn't play any role in that. If anything, their presence could potentially harm this popularity for the long term. Andrea Moda and Andretti were denied the grid for bringing disrepute to the sport and not bringing enough value to the sport respectively. Why shouldn't the same standard be applied to FIA?

Considers Ferrari can win the Constructors, Leclerc can take P2 in the Drivers, Red Bull can steal P2 in the constructors and so on. I decided to make a site that let's you pick finishing positions for the top 3 teams to see how the two championships could finish up.

https://willferrariwin.formula-one.co.uk/

https://x.com/thomasmaheronf1/status/1863359268801352146?s=46

I see a lot of people calling foul for the severity of the penalty applied to Norris. However, as precedent shows, it appears to be the standard penalty for ignoring double yellows during a race. I went through the penalty-points system database which covers the past 10 years, and found all three instances of a breach during a race.

• 2021 Austrian GP, Mazepin & Latifi handed penalty post-race, 10s Stop & Go, which was translated into 30s added to their race time due to the penalty being post race. (Source)
• 2017 Belgian GP: Raikkonnen handed 10s Stop & Go for ignoring double yellows.(Source)

These are all examples I could find of drivers ignoring double yellow flags during the race in the last 10 years. All drivers got the same penalty. If anyone could find examples from before 2014, that would be interesting too.

At least this time, the stewards seem to have been consistent for once.

/ was anyone else surprised that so many people opted for the Soft on the final safety car?

I get that - to some degree - Albon and RB had to gamble on something, but the Soft tyre went off so quickly on Zhou in the Sprint, they must have seen that they were going to get swallowed up and lose any ground they made?

Potentially a good call by Sauber as well on Saturday, because they had the data to not get tricked by it today (and that paid off in the results, you'd have to say).

Poor RB/Williams strat or just something they "had" to do?

If you watch the driver cams on F1TV, you'll hear Sainz reporting a front-left tire pressure issue on the short straight between turns 15 and 16, roughly 10 seconds BEFORE Bottas hits the mirror. Hamilton can also be heard reporting a puncture while on the pit straight well before reaching the point where the mirror was hit by Bottas. (Please note that on driver cams, the radio is out of sync with the video, but you can tell when radio calls are made by watching the driver toggle the radio on their steering wheel.)

The debris appears to mostly fall on the RIGHT side of the track, off the racing line, and both Sainz and Hamilton report front-LEFT punctures. It's possible there was some other debris from when the mirror initially fell off the car, but it seems possible, if not likely, that these punctures were unrelated to the mirror debris.

I'm not saying the race direction was good - they were absolutely wrong not to throw a SC or VSC sooner - but it seems they may not be to blame for Sainz/Hamilton's punctures.

Edit: typos

5 DNFs, multiple penalties, safety cars, punctures affect these results heavily.

Taking into account what happened, both today and in the past, with conflicting decisions or at least difficult to understand, the question would be what could be the consequences if a team "opposes" the decision taken by the stewards or race director?

Not directly in the race, but for example, at the next race, 5 teams discuss among themselves and announce that they will no longer compete if a certain race director will manage that race?

I ask because it is not uncommon in interviews to hear a team principal saying something along the lines of "we're wrong (or we think we weren't wrong) but the decision is up to the stewards, and we will comply with it".